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...dead sailor is Fireman Duane Hodges of Creswell, Ore. It is still not known with certainty how the casualties were suffered, but it has been established that Communist gunboats fired repeatedly across Pueblo's bow as she took evasive action, while eight MIGs buzzed the vessel and 75 more lay in wait at Wonsan to jump any rescuers. During this time, the crew attempted to destroy equipment and papers that might be valuable to the enemy...
Louis Block, 58, a retired fireman, had suffered a succession of heart attacks while he ran a radio-TV business in The Bronx. His heart grew bigger but weaker, causing a corresponding lung deterioration. Block was referred to Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center, where Surgeon Adrian Kantrowitz had already attempted the transplant of a baby's heart (TIME...
...there to put out the flames," one fireman said, "because the whole building might fall in on us at any minute...
...Cambridge fireman tried to save Swamy's notes by rushing into the burning building and throwing some papers out the window. They landed in the snow, however, and Swamy says he will have to wait until the snow melts to find them...
Head Down. Hebron's volunteer firemen were driven back by one explosion. "Through the wreckage and out of the smoke came this man carrying a small child," said Fireman Paul Dickmann. "The man's hair was all burned off, his face was burned, and there appeared to be flesh hanging down from his hand. 'Get to someone who needs help,' he said. Then he collapsed in my arms with the child." A 15-month-old baby lived through the crash, as did Chris Haile, 5, and his little sister Eileen, 2, whose parents were killed...